Online Temptations: COVID-19 and Religious Misinformation in the MENA Region

During the coronavirus pandemic, religious misinformation has been found on social media platforms causing fear, confusion, and polluting the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s online sphere. Exploring cases of religious clickbait in the form of false hadiths and viral religious advice fro...

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Autores principales: Alimardani, Mahsa, Elswah, Mona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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2K: Covid19
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7399566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34192037
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305120948251
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description During the coronavirus pandemic, religious misinformation has been found on social media platforms causing fear, confusion, and polluting the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s online sphere. Exploring cases of religious clickbait in the form of false hadiths and viral religious advice from religious figures entrenched in the MENA’s political elite, this essay discusses how new dynamics for religion in the age of the Internet are contributing to a uniquely regional and religious form of misinformation. This essay looks at how the phenomenon of religious misinformation is a defining characteristic of the MENA’s online sphere, becoming even more acute during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-73995662020-08-04 Online Temptations: COVID-19 and Religious Misinformation in the MENA Region Alimardani, Mahsa Elswah, Mona Soc Media Soc 2K: Covid19 During the coronavirus pandemic, religious misinformation has been found on social media platforms causing fear, confusion, and polluting the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s online sphere. Exploring cases of religious clickbait in the form of false hadiths and viral religious advice from religious figures entrenched in the MENA’s political elite, this essay discusses how new dynamics for religion in the age of the Internet are contributing to a uniquely regional and religious form of misinformation. This essay looks at how the phenomenon of religious misinformation is a defining characteristic of the MENA’s online sphere, becoming even more acute during the COVID-19 pandemic. SAGE Publications 2020-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7399566/ /pubmed/34192037 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305120948251 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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